E. Keown <k underscore isoetc at yahoo dot com> wrote: >> For an authoritative list of "countries," the UN >> list is probably your best bet. > > Is this list online? -- Elaine
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm The ISO 3166-1 FAQ points to this page as the determining factor in whether a "country" gets its own ISO 3166-1 code. There are certainly some entities here (e.g. Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen) that are not independent in the same sense as the world's major countries. Finding the dividing line is not easy, and one good question to ask would be, "What do I intend to do with this information?" -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
